Subj : Re: Bleach Time!
To   : Nightfox
From : Elf
Date : Fri Mar 26 2021 21:41:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Ni> Not only that, but since Windows 8, I think the whole Windows UI has
 Ni> looked fairly flat and monotone since then.  It's basically the same
 Ni> with the other major operating systems too.  I don't really like that
 Ni> some typical UI elements don't look like what they're supposed to be
 Ni> anymore. The worst might be buttons that are just plain flat rectangles
 Ni> - Sometimes it can be hard to tell if they're buttons or just colored
 Ni> boxes.  Another thing that bugs me is, on some Windows 10 setups I've
 Ni> seen, the default color for the active Windows Explorer window border
 Ni> is white, so it blends in with parts of the screen that have white
 Ni> (such as other Windows Explorer windows, web browser windows, etc.),
 Ni> and the Windows Explorer border will be hard (if not impossible) to
 Ni> see.

This design trend drives me crazy!! They call it "getting the interface
out of your way," or some other such nonsense. It's called lazy development.
It's poor design. You cannot get the "interface" out of our way, 
we NEED something to INTERFACE us with the SYSTEM. That is what it is for.
Since we cannot communicate with and control our computers with our thoughts
yet (not to the degree necessary to do work in today's world) we need those
buttons to look like buttons. We need borders around those borders. We need
depth and dinstinction between one application and another and between
a button and a field. It drives me crazy!!! One example I encountered in
web design. I spent 30 minutes one day looking for a field on a form
and  could not find it. Why? There was no field border of any kind around
it. There was just text on the screen and not until you clicked on the non-
highlighted text did a faint borde show up revealing it *might* be a field!

Our computer screens are not small phone screens and our phones cannot 
do all our computers can as efficiently as our computers can. Ugh.



.... At least you can always use my code as a bad example.
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